Forty days of dating produced a designer relationship

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Instead of making a couple, Timothy Goodman and Jessica Walsh’s experiment in dating became a commodity, a piece of work

Timothy Goodman stands 6ft 3in in his Rag & Bone shoes. He has broad shoulders, wide, generous features and a pinkish complexion that turns red when he is embarrassed — for instance, when friends discuss his extraordinarily complicated love life. He wonders if his tendency to flit from woman to woman is linked to him never having known his father and persistent feelings of abandonment. Perhaps; but flitting is also tremendous fun. He lives in New York and everywhere he looks there are “beautiful, interesting, smart, talented women”. His graphic design work appears in The New Yorker and on the walls